Think about terrorist the next time you upload a duckface..

KNAWING THE TECHNOLOGY IN YOUR HAND.
Every photo you take on your smart phone is with
GPS . Your smart phone can thow where you are from the
GPS satellites 20, ' s overhead, from the nearest mobile phone
towers, or any Wifi hotspots. Today they even include latitude,
longitude, direction the camera was facing and even place names. (All
stored as metadata to an EXIF file).
In 2007 a US military base in Iraq recieved new Apache
helicopters worth million each at the time. The soldiers, so
proud of their new toys were unaware of the reallocation tags when
they got snap happy and uploaded the pictures to social media sites.
The enemy then found the exact location " inside the
compound and conducted a mortar attack destroying four of the AHEGO
Apaches. A.'
That' s a million mistake.

im just wondering how exactly insurgents knew the face books of the nearby soldiers, found the metadata of the photos on the social media sites, and had nearby mortars that could be fired at a marine base that wren't already being fired or had been detectted?

This scenario is entirely possible, but I agree with you entirely. The Taliban are too low tech and everyone who reads this should watch the documentaries where the Taliban let film crews join them.

After searching for a while I couldn't find the video I was looking for, but in the video, the Taliban made a rudimentary pipe bomb out of C4. I don't know **** about bombs, but the detonator was as simple as can be. (Some wires and a phone I think.)
The men creating the bomb truly believed that their technology was too advanced for American bomb squads.

Army not Marine Corp but who really knows if this **** is true or not.
and i can ******* tell you for certain its not that hard to mortar a base. Its actually pretty damn easy. Especially when that base is in the middle of a valley or by a large urban center, too many places to look and so many to hide. Also the delivery of a couple helicopters isn't exactly a low key operation I'm sure if anyone actually had eyes on the base they would have noticed this **** right away.

It's not that. I'm sure they have access to the internet and whatnot, but it is highly unlikely that they could have accessed the information, given the unlikelihood of American soldiers adding them on Facebook.

It's been a tactic during the last clash between Hamas and Israel, where the Hamas would send text messages to Israeli phones, to try and locate them, as well as locating soldiers/civilian targets by looking at the data pictures provide. Also some dumb ***** would report exactly where rockets hit the ground so the Hamas had a perfect view of where to aim to actually hit something.

Or maybe the insurgents already knew the location of the base--cuz, you know, they're at war, and that's the sort of thing you'd want to know--and they saw the giant buzzy whirley things land there and decided "Hey, those look like nice targets. We've got these here mortars. Let's blow those things up with our mortars! Because we're at war, and that's the sort of thing you do in a war."

my step dad was in iraq for 4 years, and i skyped with him several times when the bomb sirens would go off.

never once was his base hit with mortars, despite the fact that the exact GPS cordinates of his base where on google maps.

You're telling me that they can't hit a base using the cordinates from google, but they can hack into a gov't satellite, get the cordinates of military pics out of the millions of pics in the database, and then accurately hit the helicopters with mortars?

I was on in Afghanistan for over year and the FOB I was stationed at the ******* couldn't figure out which side US forces were on. They mortared the hell out of the Jordanians and Afghans but never touched a single one of our buildings.

That is just stupid, not saying it couldnt happen, but you can disable the mark my location, and even if the phone still records it im pretty ******* sure it doesnt record that in the photo itself. Probably just a backup or something in the phone in case the cops want to search it or some ****, man i dont know.

this is all assuming you're connected to any kind of internet, or the sattelite has a LOS on your camera, at that exact time, ALL that aside, military bases capable of housing Apaches are usually very, very large, and hard to miss, if you're close enough to mortar, you already know the base is there, and probably already know the gunships are too.

This post is a croc of ****, made up by someone who has no idea what they're talking about, pretending they do.